On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 01:29:20PM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: > After psyching myself and everyone else for the udev 200 update, it > failed on compile phase! We are using hardened server, and error > message (which I am transferring over manually) is: > > The specific snippet of code: > die econf failed > > > This thing is not going easy.... > > > N. > > On 4/7/13, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > On 2013-04-07 9:38 AM, Nick Khamis <sym...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Double checking the udevd version we are running 171. Not sure if we > >> should be effected yet? I confess, I did a world upgrade and walked > >> away. > > > > Well, hopefully you learned a valuable lesson. I cannot even *fathom* > > the *idea* of doing a world update on a remote server without going > > through each and every package to be updated, reading every news item I > > could find, etc etc ad nauseum, and googling if any systems critical to > > booting (like udev) are involved. > > > > For me, world updates are usually very small because I keep my server > > updated weekly. I generally sync every day, checking what packages are > > available, then once that update has been available/unchanged for 3 or 4 > > days, I update it... waiting even a bit longer (and googling for issues) > > if the package(s) are critical system packages. > > > > Admittedly, doing it this way manually wouldn't work for anyone managing > > more than a few servers, although I imagine it could be scripted by one > > with the knowledge/desire. > > > > But seriously - there has been so much noise about the whole udev > > situation in the last months (6+?) that you should really be kicking > > yourself that you did that. > > > >
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